Karnataka

Kalaburagi, Sep 13: Fate was rather cruel for Pushpalata of Hyderabad who had just stepped in to her family life. The 28-year-old girl employed in a private company in Hyderabad was recently married and she was on a trip to Pune which was sponsored by her company, according to the police. However, she lost her life in the tragic derailment of the Secunderabad-Mumbai Duronto Express near here in

Mangaluru, Sep 13: Lifeguards of Panambur Beach Tourism Development Project (PBTDP) on Saturday rescued six tourists including six software engineers from drowning at Panambur beach on the outskirts of the city. The rescue operation of the Lifeguards started at 6:45 a.m. when they rescued four techies, part of a group of seven tourists from Bengaluru who descended on the beach. The rescued techies

Mangaluru, Sep 12: A Veda teacher who tortured a 10-year-old boy with fractured arm at a temple for sitting on a chair meant for chieftains and inquired him whether he was a Brahmin or Kshatriya was arrested by police on Saturday. On Wednesday, a complaint was filed before Vittla police in Bantwal taluk on Wednesday after information spread on social media of Shyam Sundra Shastry (50) hitting the

Mangaluru, Sep 12: More than a week after they staged black protest against former chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda for granting administrative approval to the Yettinahole diversion project, the green activists of Mangaluru on Saturday gheraoed another former chief minister M Veerappa Moily. The protesters targeted the Chikkaballapur MP when he was leaving the premises of World Konkani Centre at

Mangaluru, Sep 12: Registering their protest against continuous attacks on students by communally motivated miscreants in the city, the activists of Campus Front of India on Saturday staged a protest at Mangaluru Central Railway Station. The protest comes a day after a group of five students of a city based college, who commute every day from Kerala in train were targeted by dozens of miscreants

Hyderabad, Sep 12: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) today said it will contest the upcoming Bihar State Assembly elections from Seemanchal region. MIM chief Assaduddin Owaisi said his party will contest the election but will limit itself to Seemanchal region, which comprise mainly four districts - Araria, Purnea, Kishanganj, Katihar. "We are limited to Seemanchal area of Bihar. We

Mangaluru, Sep 12: Lashing out at Bharatiya Janata Party for continuously intruding into personal food choices, Congress leader Janardhana Poojary on Saturday dared the BJP government to ban export of meat and beef from India. The former union ministers statement comes in the wake of attempts made by certain BJP ruled states in India to impose temporary ban the sale of meat in view of the Jain

Kolkata, Sep 12: Three flights averted a possible danger when radio communication between the pilots and the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport here snapped for 11 minutes. Airport officials today said three high frequency communication channels used for voice interaction did not function between 9.17 AM and 9.28 AM yesterday. A Delhi-Kolkata GoAir flight took off and attained a

Bengaluru,?Sep 12: Zoom in for an extreme close-up of ‘Tipu’s Tiger’, a life-size wooden semi-automation device made for Tipu Sultan during the 1790s. Capturing this image in ultra high definition, the Google Cultural Institute has made the exhibit—now displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, United Kingdom—accessible online. HD imagery of over 200 such artefacts linked to Karnataka are now

Riyadh/New Delhi, Sep 12: Two haj pilgrims from India were among the more than 100 people, who were killed when a construction crane crashed on the Grand Mosque in Makkah on Friday evening. File photo shows worshippers at Makkah’s Grand Mosque sorrounded by construction cranes. Haj Committee of India vice-president Mohammed Margoob Ahmed said over phone that one woman from Kerala and a man from